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Just found out that Julian Sutton (JS hereinafter) will be the third tutor at this year’s Halsway D/G weekend, so a little anecdote…
About ten years ago I went to Melodeons at Witney and JS was one of the tutors. The workshop of his I went to was “all abilities” and I was very much a beginner. It was way, way beyond me and I came away massively frustrated and annoyed that it was not as pitched. Trying to learn “The Great North Run” and “93 Not Out” at great pace, suitable for beginners?! I walked out knowing I’d learnt nothing and wasted that time when I could’ve gained useful knowledge/ technique in a different workshop.
Fast forward to last year at Halsway when playing in the bar one evening, someone started a tune and I joined in without particular difficulty although I didn’t know it, and also the one they segued into. “What were they?” I asked, “I don’t know them but seemed to be able to play them.” The reply, of course, was “The Great North Run into 93 Not Out.”
I’m not saying I guarantee I could repeat the capability to just join in and play them, but clearly something had stuck and I’d done JS a great disservice!#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #FolkLife #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
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Looking at “Barbie Girl” (BG hereinafter) as the foreman of our morris side wants to write a new dance and it’ll need a tune… and this would fit on our instruments nicely and get the public’s attention.
By my reckoning BG has four parts. Three of those parts are eight bars each, in line with “standard form”… but the first one is 18 bars (well, 9 bars with different first/second time through endings) and includes the necessary run up for the start of the second part to feel right.
Because the run up to the B music can’t be jemmied into the end of the C or D music, we can’t just use the A music as an intro then loop the other parts (my first thought).
Do any of you internet folkies have any bright ideas to tweak BG so the A music is a multiple of 8 bars (and don’t say play it for 9x8 =72 bars, that’s much to much of it!)?
Sheet music here, (though we’d play it in G) https://sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/sheetjpg/56840.jpgAlternatively, any suggestions for upbeat, attention grabbing, well know pop similar to BG that fits nicely into an octave and a half, is in 8 or 16 bar chunks, and isn’t beset with accidents or key changes?
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Looking at “Barbie Girl” (BG hereinafter) as the foreman of our morris side wants to write a new dance and it’ll need a tune… and this would fit on our instruments nicely and get the public’s attention.
By my reckoning BG has four parts. Three of those parts are eight bars each, in line with “standard form”… but the first one is 18 bars (well, 9 bars with different first/second time through endings) and includes the necessary run up for the start of the second part to feel right.
Because the run up to the B music can’t be jemmied into the end of the C or D music, we can’t just use the A music as an intro then loop the other parts (my first thought).
Do any of you internet folkies have any bright ideas to tweak BG so the A music is a multiple of 8 bars (and don’t say play it for 9x8 =72 bars, that’s much to much of it!)?
Sheet music here, (though we’d play it in G) https://sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/sheetjpg/56840.jpgAlternatively, any suggestions for upbeat, attention grabbing, well know pop similar to BG that fits nicely into an octave and a half, is in 8 or 16 bar chunks, and isn’t beset with accidents or key changes?
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Looking at “Barbie Girl” (BG hereinafter) as the foreman of our morris side wants to write a new dance and it’ll need a tune… and this would fit on our instruments nicely and get the public’s attention.
By my reckoning BG has four parts. Three of those parts are eight bars each, in line with “standard form”… but the first one is 18 bars (well, 9 bars with different first/second time through endings) and includes the necessary run up for the start of the second part to feel right.
Because the run up to the B music can’t be jemmied into the end of the C or D music, we can’t just use the A music as an intro then loop the other parts (my first thought).
Do any of you internet folkies have any bright ideas to tweak BG so the A music is a multiple of 8 bars (and don’t say play it for 9x8 =72 bars, that’s much to much of it!)?
Sheet music here, (though we’d play it in G) https://sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/sheetjpg/56840.jpgAlternatively, any suggestions for upbeat, attention grabbing, well know pop similar to BG that fits nicely into an octave and a half, is in 8 or 16 bar chunks, and isn’t beset with accidents or key changes?
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Looking at “Barbie Girl” (BG hereinafter) as the foreman of our morris side wants to write a new dance and it’ll need a tune… and this would fit on our instruments nicely and get the public’s attention.
By my reckoning BG has four parts. Three of those parts are eight bars each, in line with “standard form”… but the first one is 18 bars (well, 9 bars with different first/second time through endings) and includes the necessary run up for the start of the second part to feel right.
Because the run up to the B music can’t be jemmied into the end of the C or D music, we can’t just use the A music as an intro then loop the other parts (my first thought).
Do any of you internet folkies have any bright ideas to tweak BG so the A music is a multiple of 8 bars (and don’t say play it for 9x8 =72 bars, that’s much to much of it!)?
Sheet music here, (though we’d play it in G) https://sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/sheetjpg/56840.jpgAlternatively, any suggestions for upbeat, attention grabbing, well know pop similar to BG that fits nicely into an octave and a half, is in 8 or 16 bar chunks, and isn’t beset with accidents or key changes?
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Looking at “Barbie Girl” (BG hereinafter) as the foreman of our morris side wants to write a new dance and it’ll need a tune… and this would fit on our instruments nicely and get the public’s attention.
By my reckoning BG has four parts. Three of those parts are eight bars each, in line with “standard form”… but the first one is 18 bars (well, 9 bars with different first/second time through endings) and includes the necessary run up for the start of the second part to feel right.
Because the run up to the B music can’t be jemmied into the end of the C or D music, we can’t just use the A music as an intro then loop the other parts (my first thought).
Do any of you internet folkies have any bright ideas to tweak BG so the A music is a multiple of 8 bars (and don’t say play it for 9x8 =72 bars, that’s much to much of it!)?
Sheet music here, (though we’d play it in G) https://sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/sheetjpg/56840.jpgAlternatively, any suggestions for upbeat, attention grabbing, well know pop similar to BG that fits nicely into an octave and a half, is in 8 or 16 bar chunks, and isn’t beset with accidents or key changes?
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In other news, I’m off to Cambridge for a day’s morris dancing with Red Cuthbert today - we’ll be at the Cambridge Blue at 2pm, the Free Press at 3 and the Mill at 4.
https://redcuthbert.uk/event/cambridge-tour
(And yes if you follow the link the poster should say “is” not “are” but I’m not the one who does that stuff any more so don’t blame me!)
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Today’s exciting delivery
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Good night at the Insomaniacs Ball - we didn’t stick it out to the bitter end as I’d hoped we would, but left some time around 1am, as not only were our dancers tiring (and busking nearly everything as there’s very little Cotswold we actually know!) but the numbers were thinning (probably 2/3 of the proper Cotswold dancers left before us) as a hard core settled into grind out the more obscure dances until dawn, and most of the musicians had left too so we were being asked to play things we didn’t know and then having to scratch around for someone who did. At that point discretion seemed the better part of valour.
Definitely a fun experience, and good for my “playing along quietly with things I don’t really know” skills.
While we only stayed a couple of hours later than most ales, it felt a bit different and if your a morris dancer wishing striking distance of Long Clawson and haven’t been you should certainly consider giving it a go.
Mild disappointment that the excellent cheese board didn’t include Long Clawson cheese though. :-P
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Today’s exciting delivery!
For anyone interested it is Milleret-Pignol layout in “D/G” - so D/Ehm/Accs… the “G/C” equivalent works well for me, so it made sense. Yes, it is… unusual…
#FolkLife #AccordéonDiatonique #Diato #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Melodeon #FolkMusic #TradMusic
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VINTAGE POSTCARD hard-working blind men of the Western South the cane chair Folklore TOP
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/LBZWMMYDFCW3U
#VintagePostcard #Folklore #BlindMen #CaneChair #SocialHistory #HardWorking #FolkLife #CulturalHeritage #WesternSouth
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VINTAGE POSTCARD hard-working blind men of the Western South the cane chair Folklore TOP
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/LBZWMMYDFCW3U
#VintagePostcard #Folklore #BlindMen #CaneChair #SocialHistory #HardWorking #FolkLife #CulturalHeritage #WesternSouth
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VINTAGE POSTCARD hard-working blind men of the Western South the cane chair Folklore TOP www.cpaphil.com/en/p... www.paypal.com/ncp/p... #VintagePostcard #Folklore #BlindMen #CaneChair #SocialHistory #HardWorking #FolkLife #CulturalHeritage #WesternSouth
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I’ve just found out that Liam Robinson is playing again, and will be appearing in a trio at the Day of Lincolnshire Folk.
He had stopped around 2015, just as I started, due to illness and there was a whip round in his aid when I went to Melodeons and More, one of the first workshops I attended. A year or so later I picked up all three of his albums and the CDs among the few that lived in my car so they were always available when commuting. Great playing on both one row four stop and D/G, including Lincolnshire tunes that are now among my own favourites to play such as The Louth Quickstep and The Quickstep From Louth (imaginative names, huh?)
The last I heard he was still unable to play, but working tuning/reparing church organs.
So to say I’m pleased is an understatement :-) :-)
Seems I will have to try rearranging my plans so I can make it to Leadenham this year!In other news, playing and dancing all day today with Red Cuthbert as part of Bedfringe (Bedford Fringe Festival) and tomorrow for the St Cuthbert’s Street Festival… busy busy.
#LiamRobinson #Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad #FolkLife #Bedfringe #BedfordFringeFestival #BedfordUK #RedCuthbertr #RedCuthbertMorris
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Le Vent Du Nord gig last night was excellent! Great music, great playing. Réjean Brunet played an interesting one (and a half?) row four stop melodeon, which despite being modern had a really archaic looking intermediate bellows frame - it did seem to have a *lot* of folds to the bellows though. Great sounding box too - does anyone know who the maker would have been?
Anyway, check out their tunes! https://leventdunord.bandcamp.com/
#FolkLife
#Melodeon #Diato #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad -
Rounded out my afternoon playing a few Blowzabella tunes, then Ingunn Bjorgo’s Askerladd Pa Avvie and the traditional Bol Olles - which for minor key tunes are both really upbeat and fun to play on the box. (Apologies for lack of accents through haste and fear of error!)
Now a short break before heading out to see Le Vent Du Nord - fantastic!
#FolkLife
#Melodeon #Diato #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad -
DigitalNC: Explore Folk Art and Craft through Primary Sources. “Folklife and traditions like folk arts and crafts help people to form and define their identities and better understand how they relate to others. By examining folk arts and crafts, this source set aims to show the variety of folklife and traditions found in the state and asks us to examine our own relationship to folklife and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/06/digitalnc-explore-folk-art-and-craft-through-primary-sources/
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I’ve been neglecting my NSP for a long while now, unfortunately. Feeling more in the mood I decided to dip into Peacock’s Tunes.
I used to know this by heart, and could do some ornamentation. Now I can hardly play it - serves me right! 🤦♂️ 😂#FolkLife #NSP #NorthumbrianSmallpipes #Folk #FolkMusic #TradMusic #Trad
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New #introduction as the previous one disappeared!
I'm a folklorist and writer, living in North Carolina, USA. My specialty is the cultural heritage of the American South, especially the Carolinas.
I direct the North Carolina Folklife Institute (ncfolk.org), a nonprofit dedicated to folklife documentation. I also edit the Old-Time Herald (oldtimeherald.org), a magazine about traditional music of #Appalachia and related styles. I play old-time #fiddle and #banjo.
I'm currently collaborating with historian and potter Hal Pugh on a history of folk #pottery in the South, to be published in fall 2024 by @uncpress . Hal and I also research Southern folk gravestone carving.
My family goes back centuries in the Carolinas and #Cuba, and #genealogy has been a project since childhood. I collect #78rpm records, as well as old photos (mainly of the pre-WWII Southern US).
Also love #cats, #ghoststories, and #reptiles.
#South #histodons #folklorists #folklore #folklife #ceramics #Cuban
